[seam-dev] [weld-dev] Mercurial vs GIT

Tue Nov 24 13:34:21 EST 2009

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:07, Ashish Tonse <ashish.tonse at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for git/github.
> Echoing what others have said, I think github is ultimately what makes git
> the most attractive, all things considered. Github makes it incredibly easy
> to fork and propose pushes. 
> Google code seems to be better suited for smaller projects, even though
> google uses it for their even larger projects. For an open source project
> with outside contributors, it's essential to have a good "hub" - and github
> serves that purpose extremely well.
> Just my 15 cents (inflation).
> Ashish
> PS: I'm tempted to further splinter this debate by proposing Bazaar :) (with
> Ubuntu's launchpad)
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Francisco Jose Peredo
> <franciscoperedo at tabasco.gob.mx> wrote:
>>
>> A nice out of the box hosting option for Mercurial? I think I mentioned
>> GoogleCode... or there are many options to choose:
>>
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MercurialHosting
>>
>> Dan Allen escribió:
>>
>> We all agreed to use git over svn, but to be honest, mercurial wasn't
>> considered. I've used both as well. But in my short exposure, I really
>> didn't see a difference. What makes git so attractive is that github.com
>> explains so well how to use it.
>>
>> I supposed we could consider mercurcial if there was a nice out of the box
>> hosting option like github.com. If not, git will likely win because of that.
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have seen a reasonable amount of GIT, and have liked what I saw, as
>>> have most of the other core team who have spoken up on this issue.
>>>
>>> Sell us Mercurial :-)
>>>
>>> On 24 Nov 2009, at 14:22, Francisco Jose Peredo wrote:
>>>
>>> > An interesting comparision?:
>>> >
>>> > http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Francisco Jose Peredo escribió:
>>> >> I have not tried GIT, but from what I have read it is pretty
>>> >> complicated to learn to use...
>>> >> OTOH I have tried Mercurial, which is also distributed, and found it
>>> >> confortable... apparently the
>>> >> way it deals with its distribute nature is easier for subversion users
>>> >> to understand...
>>> >> AFAIK Netbeans source code is in Mercurial, also OpenJDK... So it
>>> >> seems to work
>>> >> well with large code bases... and there are plugins for Netbeans,
>>> >> Eclipse and the Tortoise Hg
>>> >> project is advanced and usable...
>>> >> Google Code offers free Mercurial hosting...
>>> >> Why not Mercurial?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Pete Muir escribió:
>>> >>> A quick item we discussed at the f2f meeting was whether to switch to
>>> >>> GIT for our SCM, rather than SVN.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> This would give us a IMO a system well suited to our distribued dev
>>> >>> model, it would also make it much easier for others to sandbox PEs
>>> >>> and
>>> >>> then contribute them back to us.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The proposal is to use Github to host.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The team members at devoxx were in favour, but what do others think?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Pete
>>> >>>
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I've looked at both and the one major difference is the branching model in hg.  Many people have coined it "broken" but those may all be in the past.  As far as tooling goes I think you'll find decent support either way.  Would Fisheye and JIRA still be used or would the services of the host be used instead?  That may also be something to consider.

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